General Discussion & Chat: Coffee...and for July 7, 2006, 1 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
Wow, I've got some catching up to do. Gorgeous day, got a little fertilizing done, potted some slips I picked up somewhere (I do volunteer pruning at the garden shops!) think it's a bridal veil. Went to see Pirates with DH this afternoon and absolutely loved it! The special effects were excellent, Johnny Depp was charmingly naughty, and you know at the end there will be another one. It was long, 2 and a half hours! They had a midnight show here last night too but by midnight I'm asleep. Probably would have slept through it!

Great floor color Darius, so cool and refreshing! I could live with that color for a long while. And tomorrow is Farmer's market and rummage, I wanna go toooooo. Sunday my BIL is showing up to pick up the van DH had given him, which he drove up here with the car he wanted DH to sell. Gave the van back to DH, who was going to sell his truck, the gas hog, and fix up the van to use for hauling stuff. Well, now BIL has changed his mind and wants it back so that plan is kaput. Wish I could make DH jump at my command the way his half brother can. Also means I have to change linens in the guest room because there is no way he is sleeping on my good sheets. I suppose he feels sorry for the guy, because he is such a mess. Sorry for venting, but you know how I feel about him.

McCool, I think they operate on a diffferent scale if people are uninsured, because they think they will have a problem collecting. When they see the opportunity to make money, they hop right on it. Medical expenses are way out of control, mostly due to insurance companies. There was such a fuss about reducing the amount people could collect for medical malpractice, and then I saw some statistics about how few truly large settlement are actually made. It was not big enough news to make the front pages though, they only like to publish bad news as that is what sells in the media. LOL at Dust with a shovel...the only time I even notice dust is in spring and fall when the sun starts coming in at that low angle...so now you know I dust twice a year whether it needs it or not!

Pizza for dinner sounds good to me. Might run down the road and pick one up instead of cooking. I have to clean out my freezer too, in spite of my good intentions, things are getting lost in the back. I had to throw out a whole bag of ice because it was taking up too much room. Store had a sale on frozen sea food...

Sarv, I never pierce the crust on a fruit pie, they always leak through. If I make a shell for a fruit pie I don't peirce that either, I use pie weights or dried beans over a layer of parchment paper, and then remove them for the last five minutes or so. Keeps the crust from poofing up. Sometimes I even brush the crust with butter before I put the filling in, just to keep it from getting soggy. No matter how you do it, the pie always tastes good! So, I'll just have a teeny slice............LOL

Vickie, I went to school in Superior, and high school in Solon Springs, which isn't all that far from Eau Claire. Straight up Hwy 53. Went back there for my 50th reunion two years ago. Hasn't changed much.

Maria, I don't think I made your coffee cake, but it sounds so good. We seldom have breakfast at home, DH grabs a bagel or something to go with his yogurt at work, and on Sunday we go out for breakfast, so I hardly ever bake for morning. Some mornings I eat breakfast so late it passes for lunch. I think those are Queen Anne cherries, the cream colored ones with just a little pink on them, but I'm not sure.

I'm trying very hard not to stop at any more nurseries or gardens shops. I still have money left on the gift card my DD gave me but I want to get a potting bench of some kind for outside. DH said he was going to build one for me but that didn't happen. The plastic ones are pretty ugly, but I'm afraid a metal/wood one wouldn't hold up well. I can always move it into the garage in winter, so I guess I'll just wait and see what's out there when they start unloading all the summer stuff that didn't sell. I still have half a dozen sedum to put in somewhere....they are probably root bound by now.

Here's what my littlest angel was doing today. Such fun to bat my little hummer around from the top tier of the cat tree. Doesn't she look guilty?

Probably won't be back tonight, so I'll see y'all tomorrow!
~~~ing to anyone I didn't answer or comment to...CRS

Sheila

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